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Matt McDonald, a Boston-area native, has decades of experience as a reporter, editor, and copy editor. His work has appeared in The Mashpee Messenger, Cape Cod News, and The Norfolk Boomerang.
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U.S. vice president Kamala Harris praised Australia's sweeping gun control laws while lamenting a mass shooting in Maine on Wednesday night that left 18 dead and 13 injured. "Gun violence has terrorized and traumatized so many of our communities in this country. And let us be
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Undergraduate students at Harvard College who work part-time for the school have voted overwhelmingly to form a union. The tally as of Wednesday, October 25 was 153-1, according to the student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, which also reported:
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A 40-year-old man recently hospitalized for hearing voices shot and killed at least 16 people in Lewiston, Maine on Wednesday night. Police were still looking for the suspect, Robert Card, as of 8 a.m. Thursday, October 26 according to multiple news reports, including one from the Lewiston Sun Journal.
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A pro-life conservative who used to work as a lawyer for what is now Alliance Defending Freedom is now the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Mike Johnson, 51, a Republican congressman from Louisiana, won more than the 217 votes needed to become speaker a little before 2
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The Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance is planning to help the state auditor gather signatures to try to put a measure on the 2024 state ballot that would give her explicit authority to audit the state legislature. State Auditor Diane DiZoglio has attempted to audit the Massachusetts Legislature, but the leaders of
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The Massachusetts state government needs to build more shelters to house migrants, a pro-immigration group said. Governor Maura Healey said Monday, October 16 that Massachusetts may run out of space in shelters by the end of October because of a sharp increase in migrants. Healey has also recent;y stopped
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A sweeping gun-ban bill will pass on the floor of the Massachusetts House of Representatives despite opposition from police chiefs and gun-rights supporters, the House speaker said Tuesday. The House Ways and Means Committee voted to advance the bill Tuesday, October 17 by a vote of 21-8, with one abstention,
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Democrats in New Hampshire should consider changing their voter registration status to undeclared so they can vote against former president Donald Trump in the state's Republican presidential primary, a former party official said. "This would have the effect of weakening Trump's vote total and perhaps